Nearly 4,000 people die from accidental drowning ever year, according to the CDC.
The nationwide surge in accidental drowning deaths early during the COVID-19 pandemic was disproportionately worse for Black people, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Tuesday — a finding in line with longstanding disparities.Compared to 2019, drowning rates increased among Black people by 22.2% in 2020 and 28.3% in 2021. Drowning rates were the worst overall for Black people as well as American Indian and Alaska Native people in those first two years.
It is concerning that there are increases in drowning rates among some of these groups that were already at disparately higher risk for drowning,' said Clemens.One data point that might help explain the disparity in drowning deaths could be a gap in swimming skills. In its new study, the CDC found that more than a third of Black adults and around a quarter of Hispanic adults said that they did not know how to swim, when asked by an agency-funded survey in November.
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